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In town .
today
1: 30 to 4: 30 p. m. Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome workshop,
Public Library.
5: 30 p. m. Annual Republican
Pot Luck Picnic, Atty. Gen. Dan- fort- h,
Cosmopolitan Recreational
Park.
7: 30 Columbia Housing Author-ity
Board of Commissioners, Oak
Towers.
8 p. m. Kansas City choir
Church of God in Christ
Exhibits
Continuing: Ellis Library,
Italian Baroque Drawings and
Textiles Through Two Millenia, 2
pan. to 5 p. m. Columbia Art
League, Art and the City: A Cele-bration
of Columbia and Boone
County, 10: 30 a. m. to 3: 15 pjn.
Columbia Gallery of Photo-graphy,
Photography by Douglas
Faulkner and Huntington
Witherill, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Public
library, Scenes from Columbia,
Lois Mikrut, watercolors and
Twentieth Century Doll Collec-tion.
See Page 15A for movie listings.
See Page 14A for Boone County
Fair schedule.
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Argentine
refugees
in trouble
ByMerwinRLSigale
Chicago Dally News
BUENOS AIRES - A Chilean
refugee is snatched from the doorway
of a relief agency, disfigured with add
and later dumped from an automobile.
Twenty- fou- r Chileans and a
Paraguayan are kidnaped from two
small hotels, some are tortured, and all
are threatened with death unless they
leave Argentina within 48 hours. Their
captors sing Nazi songs and shout anti- Semi- tic
slogans, though none of the
captives is Jewish.
A former Bolivian president, in exile
since being overthrown, is kidnaped
and found slain with three bulletejHhkjs . ' head.
Two Uruguayan ex- congress- men are
dragged from their rooms and
murdered.
At one of a core of shelters
maintained by United Nations or
church agencies for Latin American
refugees, a Chilean man pulls down a
window shade as a precaution against
prying eyes, and sullenly tells a
reporter, " This refugee is our prison.
We are afraid to go outside."
Those incidents, all occurring in the
last two months, point up the plight of
thousands of leftist political refugees in
Argentina. Their situation has been
submerged in the struggle between
security forces and Marxist guerrillas
a struggle in which right- win- g
" death squads" have intervened in
lawless fashion against leftists, real or
suspected.
About 700 persons have died in
politically motivated strife since Jan. 1,
and more than 500 of those deaths have
occurred since the armed forces
overthrew the 21- month-- old
government of President Maria Estela
( Isabel) Peron on March 24.
Argentina's new military leaders
pledged to curb the violence and restore
sanity to a chaotic economy. The Junta
is making strides toward economic
order, but the violence has escalated. In
the- - process, the armed forces have
dealt major blows to the guerrillas,
failing some of their leaders.
At the same time, the death squads
seem to have regarded the advent of a
strongly anti- Commun- ist military
regime as a cue to step up their terror
against leftists, native and foreign. The
guerrillas, too, are masters of
terrorism, and hardly a day passes
without some new outrage by one side .
or the other.
The terrorists of the right are
reported to include members of the
security forces. Some have identified
themselves as such to victims who
survived.
" What bothers us most is that
irregular forces, unknown persons, are
kidnaping every day," said Guy Prim,
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Democrats to pick nominee
ST. LOUIS ( UPI) Missouri
Democratic officials Wednesday
considered the unwanted and politically
sensitive task of choosing a nominee for
the U. S. Senate to replace Rep. Jerry
Litton, killed in an election night plane
crash.
As President Ford expressed his
sadness at the tragedy, politicking
commenced for the nomination.
Secretary of State James C.
Kirkpatrick confirmed state law
requires the Democratic State
Committee to act. Democratic State
Chairman John Mcllroy scheduled a
meeting Saturday in Jefferson City, but
would not indicate if action would be
taken.
Litton, his wife and two children, a
pilot and the pilot's son died in the fiery
crash on take- o- ff from his northwest
Missouri hometown of ChflBcothe
Tuesday night. They were on theirway
to a victory celebration in Kansas City.
They had no way of knowing Litton, a
two- ter- m congressman and millionaire
cattle rancher, had scored the political
upset of the year in Missouri, capturing
45 per cent of the vote in a 12- candid- ate
race.
With more than 95 per cent of the vote
reported Wednesday, former Gov.
Warren E. Hearnes of Charleston was
running second with 26 per cent and
Rep. James W. Symington of Ladue
was a dose third with 25 per cent. In the
race to succeed Sen. Stuart Symington,
D- M- o. Atty. Gen. John C. Danforth
easily won the Republican nomination
over a token opponent.
" As far as we've been able to check it
out, the law says that when a nominee
dies before the election, the party
committee acts, which in this case is
the state committee," said Kirkpatrick,
the state's chief election official.
Kirkpatrick said he detected, among
the expressions of grief, that work to
swing the 60 votes in the state
committee toward a new nominee had
begun.
" I think it started this morning, if not
last night," Kirkpatrick said. " It
started, actually, in the wee hours of
this morning."
Kirkpatrick did not identify those he
said were working for the nomination.
He said he was surprised at the
strength shown by Hearnes, who was
rated only a spoiler role in the primary
because of a three- ye- ar but
inconclusive federal investigation
into his personal finances while
governor for eight years in the 1960s
and early 1970s.
" People apparently are accepting his
explanation. That, and the fact that
through the loss of Bill Cason to Joe
Teasdale in the governor's race, that
experience is not the thing people are
concerned about," Kirkpatrick said.
Symington had been the favorite to
win the nomination to succeed his
father, retiring after 24 years in the
Senate. But Litton poured almost $ 1
million, about half of it his own money,
into the race and had considerably
narrowed the gap in statewide polls
days before the election.
He scored well in all areas of the
state, including the St. Louis area
where Symington needed a
commanding margin of support.
Hearnes also undercut Symington
among St. Louis voters.
Mcllroy said the 7- me-mber
state
executive committee will meet at 10
a. m. Saturday at the Ramada Inn in
Jefferson City.
Mcllroy called the plane crash at the
Chillicothe airport " just tragic."
" Litton attracted new people into
politics. He appealed to the people that
heretofore had not entered politics,"
Mcllroy said.
He said the committee had a free
hand to choose whomever it wished to
run against Danforth. He said the order
of finish in Tuesday's primary " will be
a consideration."
Both Symington and Hearnes
suspended campaign activity as soon as
they learned of the Litton tragedy. They
expressed shock and disbelief.
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IUUS Senator jTf A sign proclaims Chillicothe as the home of U. S. Rep. Jerry
Litton, who was killed in an airplane crash Tuesday night as
he was winning the Democratic primary for the U. S. Senate
nomination. Flags across the state are being flown at half- -
Farmer watched plunge
of Rep. Litton's plane
By our wire services
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. A sign on the
outskirts of this north central Missouri
town reads, " Welcome to Chillicothe,
home of Jerry Litton, our next U. S.
senator." But Wednesday, an
American flag flew at half- sta- ff behind
the sign, mourning the death of the
Democratic Senate nominee.
Hugh Campbell, a farmer who saw
the fiery airplane crash that killed
Litton and five other persons Tuesday
night, said there was little chance the
occupants could have escaped death.
Campbell was in his garden picking
grapes by flashlight about 9: 15 p. m.
and saw the twin- engin- e Beechcraft
Baron go down, killing Litton, his wife
Sharon, 36, and their only children,
Linda, 13, and Scott Stuart, 12, whom
Litton named after retiring Sen. Stuart
Symington the man he hoped to
succeed.
Litton, a 39- year-- old millionaire
cattle rancher, died several hours
before his upset primary victory for
Symington's seat had been confirmed.
He and his family were enroute to a
victory party in Kansas City when the
plane banked sharply to the left,
crashed and exploded about 150 yards
( 135 meters) from the end of the airport
runway.
Litton's close friend, Paul Rupp Jr.,
46, the plane's pilot and the owner of an
mast in his memory. Litton's plane crashed as it took off
from the Chillicothe airport, in the background above. ( UPI
telephotos)
automotive supply company m Chilli-cothe,
and his son Paul Rupp III, 18,
also were killed in the crash. Rupp was
described as an experienced pilot.
" It sounded like an airplane engine
that was revved up trying to take off or
something," said Campbell, whose
farm is located about 200 yards ( 180
meters) from the Chillicothe Municipal
Airport where the plane crashed.
" Then I just heard a terrific noise and
then an explosion and I turned around
and saw fire shooting up from it, he
said. " For a little bit there was a lot of
black smoke. I just stood there and
watched. You could see they had no
chance to get out."
Campbell said that when fire officials
reached ' the crash scene, about four
miles ( 6 kilometers) east of town
along U. S. 36, the flames were still
three to four feet high.
" They smothered the fire and then
they said there were six bodies inside,"
Campbell said.
The bodies were burned beyond
recognition and were identified through
dental records.
George West of the National Trans-portation
Safety Board said officials
left the plane undisturbed in the
soybean field where it crashed.
Officials speculated the impact was
light because the wreckage was all in
one piece.
West said investigators could not de-termine
the cause of the crash after an
initial examination and that 10
specialists, including power plant and
airplane structure experts, would be
working on the case along with repre-sentatives
from Beechcraft Corp., the
Wichita, Kan., manufacturer of the
airplane, and Continental engines, the
company that made the engine.
" Everything will be documented and
( See POWER, Page 16A)
Carter voices optimism
about country's future
By James Reston
N. Y. Times News Service
WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter
came to Washington Wednesday for a
little skull- practi- ce with his
presidential campaign staff, and talked
optimistically and philosophically
about the future.
In an interview with the New York
Times, the Democratic party's
presidential nominee made the
following points:
He thought the Republicans would
nominate President Ford at Kansas
City, but not John R. Connally of Texas
for vice president. On the issue of public
trust, he said, " Maybe the only person
in the country who has a lower rating in
the polls than Connally is Gov. George
Wallace."
He thought the " religious" issue
had been " substantially alleviated,"
but that trust in government and
government leaders was still the major
issue among the people, who he said
were giving government " one more
chance."
He thought it was " fair" to talk
about the " Ford- Nixo- n administration"
not, he said, " the dishonesty and the
disgrace of Nixon, but Ford's
continuation of Nixon's policies, yes."
He was not assuming that he would
win in November, or anything else, but
. if he won, he would revive " cabinet
government," restore " the fireside
chats" of the Roosevelt era, work for a
nonpartisan foreign policy, and try to
renew the people's faith in their
political leaders.
Carter acts like a man who has time
for everybody. He was up greeting a
delegation of milk producers at his
hotel before 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning. He addressed the Democratic
party's National Steering Committee
shortly after 9, met editors of the
Scripps- Howa- rd newspaper chain in
midmorning, and had lunch with the
editorial board of the Washington Star.
Later, he took questions from the
editorial board of U. S. News and World
( See CARTER, Page 16A)
Pugh proclaims period
of mourning for Litton
Mayor Bob Pugh issued a
proclamation Wednesday to express
the city's mourning of U. S. Rep.
Jerry Litton, D- Chillicot-he,
and his
family.
Mr. Litton and his family died in a
plane crash in Chillicothe Tuesday
night. They were enroute to a party
in Kansas City celebrating his
election victory.
Pugh proclaimed that flags in the
city shall fly at half- ma- st until Aug.
6. Lt. Gov. Williem Phelps earlier
Wednesday issued a state
proclamation that flags fly at half
mast.
Public memorial services for Mr.
Litton will be at 7: 30 p. m. today at
the First Presbyterian Church, 16
HittSt
Mr. Litton and his wife joined the
church during a 1959 visit to
Columbia.
The Rev. Donald G. Huston and
the Rev. Brent J. Eelman will
conduct the services.
Jay Wendel McKinsey, associate
dean of the University College of
Agriculture and a longtime friend of
Mr. Litton, will speak.
The Boone . County Litton
Committee announced Wednesday
the formation of a Jerry Litton
memorial scholarship fund at the
University.
Donations may be made to The
Jerry Litton Memorial Scholarship
Fund, Box 1734, Columbia, Mo.,
65201.
Fire station closing irks northeast area residents
By Virginia Young
Mtesoarian staff writer
Some Northeast Columbia residents
are upset by the city administration's
reluctance to approve funds that ensure
the city's fire stations will be open at all
times.
The funds allow the Columbia Fire
Department to recall off- du- ty fire
fighters to keep the companies at full
strength. Northeast area Fire Station
No. 5 on Route PP has been closed twice
in the past week becauae of the absence
of constant- maimui- g funds.
Ted Remmele, Stonegate Trailer
Park, said he plans to call a meeting of
area residents. " We will go to city hall
and raise hell."
Harry Ackman, 4715 Mexico Gravel
Road, said residents of that part of the
city were promised a fire station when
tiie area was annexed in 1969. " They
went to the expense of building it, but
now they don't want to supply the
manpower," he said.
Stations are closed on a day- to- d- ay
bads, depending on the available
manpower. Station No. 5 abut down
early Tuesday when one of the fire
fighters was attending negotiations
between Local 1056 of the International
Association of Firefighters and the city,
causing a shortage. The station was
reopened that afternoon.
There is a chance that Fire Station
No. 5 will be closed permanently, City
Manager Terry Novak said
Wednesday.
" Just because a fire station is there
doesn't mean we need it. We're
studying some computer programs now
which will help us determine the best
layout for fire stations."
Fire Chief Dean Holland has
requested ( 18,000 in constant- mannin- g
funds. Novak said he " hasn't decided
yet" whether he will take the request to
the City Council.
When Fire Station No. 5 is closed, its
calls are answered by Fire Station No. 4
on Oakland Gravel Road. " There would
be a slight difference in response
time," Novak said. " It's a matter of a
few minutes."
Fire Lt. G. D. Elder of Station No. 4
estimates the difference at four or five
minutes during rush hours. " The first
five minutes are crucial because heat
generates very quickly. An entire
trailer can be consumed in three
minutes," he said.
There are four mobile home parks in
the primary response area of Station.
No. 5. The area also includes the Indian
Hills residential district and the
Homestead Apartments.
Fire Lt. R. E. Barker of Station No. 5
said closing the station could be critical
for residents of the Homestead
Apartments. " I don't believe Station
No. 4 could get there in less than 10 or 12
minutes in heavy traffic."
It would take even longer for a
backup truck from Station No. 1,
Seventh and Walnut streets, to arrive,
he said.
Although the Boone County Fire
Protection District Station No. 1 also is
located on Route PP, it does not answer
calls within the city limits unless the
Columbia Fire Department specifically
requests aid.
Deputy Chief Steve Paulsell said,
" We have a mutual aid agreement with
the city whereby either department can
request assistance. The department
then determines whether it can assist
But since the fire fighter force at the
district station is all volunteer, there is
not always someone at the station."
Holland said that without more
amstant- mannin- g funds, he estimates
that " from time to time, three
companies will be closed down'

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In town .
today
1: 30 to 4: 30 p. m. Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome workshop,
Public Library.
5: 30 p. m. Annual Republican
Pot Luck Picnic, Atty. Gen. Dan- fort- h,
Cosmopolitan Recreational
Park.
7: 30 Columbia Housing Author-ity
Board of Commissioners, Oak
Towers.
8 p. m. Kansas City choir
Church of God in Christ
Exhibits
Continuing: Ellis Library,
Italian Baroque Drawings and
Textiles Through Two Millenia, 2
pan. to 5 p. m. Columbia Art
League, Art and the City: A Cele-bration
of Columbia and Boone
County, 10: 30 a. m. to 3: 15 pjn.
Columbia Gallery of Photo-graphy,
Photography by Douglas
Faulkner and Huntington
Witherill, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Public
library, Scenes from Columbia,
Lois Mikrut, watercolors and
Twentieth Century Doll Collec-tion.
See Page 15A for movie listings.
See Page 14A for Boone County
Fair schedule.
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Argentine
refugees
in trouble
ByMerwinRLSigale
Chicago Dally News
BUENOS AIRES - A Chilean
refugee is snatched from the doorway
of a relief agency, disfigured with add
and later dumped from an automobile.
Twenty- fou- r Chileans and a
Paraguayan are kidnaped from two
small hotels, some are tortured, and all
are threatened with death unless they
leave Argentina within 48 hours. Their
captors sing Nazi songs and shout anti- Semi- tic
slogans, though none of the
captives is Jewish.
A former Bolivian president, in exile
since being overthrown, is kidnaped
and found slain with three bulletejHhkjs . ' head.
Two Uruguayan ex- congress- men are
dragged from their rooms and
murdered.
At one of a core of shelters
maintained by United Nations or
church agencies for Latin American
refugees, a Chilean man pulls down a
window shade as a precaution against
prying eyes, and sullenly tells a
reporter, " This refugee is our prison.
We are afraid to go outside."
Those incidents, all occurring in the
last two months, point up the plight of
thousands of leftist political refugees in
Argentina. Their situation has been
submerged in the struggle between
security forces and Marxist guerrillas
a struggle in which right- win- g
" death squads" have intervened in
lawless fashion against leftists, real or
suspected.
About 700 persons have died in
politically motivated strife since Jan. 1,
and more than 500 of those deaths have
occurred since the armed forces
overthrew the 21- month-- old
government of President Maria Estela
( Isabel) Peron on March 24.
Argentina's new military leaders
pledged to curb the violence and restore
sanity to a chaotic economy. The Junta
is making strides toward economic
order, but the violence has escalated. In
the- - process, the armed forces have
dealt major blows to the guerrillas,
failing some of their leaders.
At the same time, the death squads
seem to have regarded the advent of a
strongly anti- Commun- ist military
regime as a cue to step up their terror
against leftists, native and foreign. The
guerrillas, too, are masters of
terrorism, and hardly a day passes
without some new outrage by one side .
or the other.
The terrorists of the right are
reported to include members of the
security forces. Some have identified
themselves as such to victims who
survived.
" What bothers us most is that
irregular forces, unknown persons, are
kidnaping every day," said Guy Prim,
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1VTATE HI. T. RICV, ." CISTY
HITT & LOWRY ST.
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Democrats to pick nominee
ST. LOUIS ( UPI) Missouri
Democratic officials Wednesday
considered the unwanted and politically
sensitive task of choosing a nominee for
the U. S. Senate to replace Rep. Jerry
Litton, killed in an election night plane
crash.
As President Ford expressed his
sadness at the tragedy, politicking
commenced for the nomination.
Secretary of State James C.
Kirkpatrick confirmed state law
requires the Democratic State
Committee to act. Democratic State
Chairman John Mcllroy scheduled a
meeting Saturday in Jefferson City, but
would not indicate if action would be
taken.
Litton, his wife and two children, a
pilot and the pilot's son died in the fiery
crash on take- o- ff from his northwest
Missouri hometown of ChflBcothe
Tuesday night. They were on theirway
to a victory celebration in Kansas City.
They had no way of knowing Litton, a
two- ter- m congressman and millionaire
cattle rancher, had scored the political
upset of the year in Missouri, capturing
45 per cent of the vote in a 12- candid- ate
race.
With more than 95 per cent of the vote
reported Wednesday, former Gov.
Warren E. Hearnes of Charleston was
running second with 26 per cent and
Rep. James W. Symington of Ladue
was a dose third with 25 per cent. In the
race to succeed Sen. Stuart Symington,
D- M- o. Atty. Gen. John C. Danforth
easily won the Republican nomination
over a token opponent.
" As far as we've been able to check it
out, the law says that when a nominee
dies before the election, the party
committee acts, which in this case is
the state committee," said Kirkpatrick,
the state's chief election official.
Kirkpatrick said he detected, among
the expressions of grief, that work to
swing the 60 votes in the state
committee toward a new nominee had
begun.
" I think it started this morning, if not
last night," Kirkpatrick said. " It
started, actually, in the wee hours of
this morning."
Kirkpatrick did not identify those he
said were working for the nomination.
He said he was surprised at the
strength shown by Hearnes, who was
rated only a spoiler role in the primary
because of a three- ye- ar but
inconclusive federal investigation
into his personal finances while
governor for eight years in the 1960s
and early 1970s.
" People apparently are accepting his
explanation. That, and the fact that
through the loss of Bill Cason to Joe
Teasdale in the governor's race, that
experience is not the thing people are
concerned about," Kirkpatrick said.
Symington had been the favorite to
win the nomination to succeed his
father, retiring after 24 years in the
Senate. But Litton poured almost $ 1
million, about half of it his own money,
into the race and had considerably
narrowed the gap in statewide polls
days before the election.
He scored well in all areas of the
state, including the St. Louis area
where Symington needed a
commanding margin of support.
Hearnes also undercut Symington
among St. Louis voters.
Mcllroy said the 7- me-mber
state
executive committee will meet at 10
a. m. Saturday at the Ramada Inn in
Jefferson City.
Mcllroy called the plane crash at the
Chillicothe airport " just tragic."
" Litton attracted new people into
politics. He appealed to the people that
heretofore had not entered politics,"
Mcllroy said.
He said the committee had a free
hand to choose whomever it wished to
run against Danforth. He said the order
of finish in Tuesday's primary " will be
a consideration."
Both Symington and Hearnes
suspended campaign activity as soon as
they learned of the Litton tragedy. They
expressed shock and disbelief.
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IUUS Senator jTf A sign proclaims Chillicothe as the home of U. S. Rep. Jerry
Litton, who was killed in an airplane crash Tuesday night as
he was winning the Democratic primary for the U. S. Senate
nomination. Flags across the state are being flown at half- -
Farmer watched plunge
of Rep. Litton's plane
By our wire services
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. A sign on the
outskirts of this north central Missouri
town reads, " Welcome to Chillicothe,
home of Jerry Litton, our next U. S.
senator." But Wednesday, an
American flag flew at half- sta- ff behind
the sign, mourning the death of the
Democratic Senate nominee.
Hugh Campbell, a farmer who saw
the fiery airplane crash that killed
Litton and five other persons Tuesday
night, said there was little chance the
occupants could have escaped death.
Campbell was in his garden picking
grapes by flashlight about 9: 15 p. m.
and saw the twin- engin- e Beechcraft
Baron go down, killing Litton, his wife
Sharon, 36, and their only children,
Linda, 13, and Scott Stuart, 12, whom
Litton named after retiring Sen. Stuart
Symington the man he hoped to
succeed.
Litton, a 39- year-- old millionaire
cattle rancher, died several hours
before his upset primary victory for
Symington's seat had been confirmed.
He and his family were enroute to a
victory party in Kansas City when the
plane banked sharply to the left,
crashed and exploded about 150 yards
( 135 meters) from the end of the airport
runway.
Litton's close friend, Paul Rupp Jr.,
46, the plane's pilot and the owner of an
mast in his memory. Litton's plane crashed as it took off
from the Chillicothe airport, in the background above. ( UPI
telephotos)
automotive supply company m Chilli-cothe,
and his son Paul Rupp III, 18,
also were killed in the crash. Rupp was
described as an experienced pilot.
" It sounded like an airplane engine
that was revved up trying to take off or
something," said Campbell, whose
farm is located about 200 yards ( 180
meters) from the Chillicothe Municipal
Airport where the plane crashed.
" Then I just heard a terrific noise and
then an explosion and I turned around
and saw fire shooting up from it, he
said. " For a little bit there was a lot of
black smoke. I just stood there and
watched. You could see they had no
chance to get out."
Campbell said that when fire officials
reached ' the crash scene, about four
miles ( 6 kilometers) east of town
along U. S. 36, the flames were still
three to four feet high.
" They smothered the fire and then
they said there were six bodies inside,"
Campbell said.
The bodies were burned beyond
recognition and were identified through
dental records.
George West of the National Trans-portation
Safety Board said officials
left the plane undisturbed in the
soybean field where it crashed.
Officials speculated the impact was
light because the wreckage was all in
one piece.
West said investigators could not de-termine
the cause of the crash after an
initial examination and that 10
specialists, including power plant and
airplane structure experts, would be
working on the case along with repre-sentatives
from Beechcraft Corp., the
Wichita, Kan., manufacturer of the
airplane, and Continental engines, the
company that made the engine.
" Everything will be documented and
( See POWER, Page 16A)
Carter voices optimism
about country's future
By James Reston
N. Y. Times News Service
WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter
came to Washington Wednesday for a
little skull- practi- ce with his
presidential campaign staff, and talked
optimistically and philosophically
about the future.
In an interview with the New York
Times, the Democratic party's
presidential nominee made the
following points:
He thought the Republicans would
nominate President Ford at Kansas
City, but not John R. Connally of Texas
for vice president. On the issue of public
trust, he said, " Maybe the only person
in the country who has a lower rating in
the polls than Connally is Gov. George
Wallace."
He thought the " religious" issue
had been " substantially alleviated,"
but that trust in government and
government leaders was still the major
issue among the people, who he said
were giving government " one more
chance."
He thought it was " fair" to talk
about the " Ford- Nixo- n administration"
not, he said, " the dishonesty and the
disgrace of Nixon, but Ford's
continuation of Nixon's policies, yes."
He was not assuming that he would
win in November, or anything else, but
. if he won, he would revive " cabinet
government," restore " the fireside
chats" of the Roosevelt era, work for a
nonpartisan foreign policy, and try to
renew the people's faith in their
political leaders.
Carter acts like a man who has time
for everybody. He was up greeting a
delegation of milk producers at his
hotel before 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning. He addressed the Democratic
party's National Steering Committee
shortly after 9, met editors of the
Scripps- Howa- rd newspaper chain in
midmorning, and had lunch with the
editorial board of the Washington Star.
Later, he took questions from the
editorial board of U. S. News and World
( See CARTER, Page 16A)
Pugh proclaims period
of mourning for Litton
Mayor Bob Pugh issued a
proclamation Wednesday to express
the city's mourning of U. S. Rep.
Jerry Litton, D- Chillicot-he,
and his
family.
Mr. Litton and his family died in a
plane crash in Chillicothe Tuesday
night. They were enroute to a party
in Kansas City celebrating his
election victory.
Pugh proclaimed that flags in the
city shall fly at half- ma- st until Aug.
6. Lt. Gov. Williem Phelps earlier
Wednesday issued a state
proclamation that flags fly at half
mast.
Public memorial services for Mr.
Litton will be at 7: 30 p. m. today at
the First Presbyterian Church, 16
HittSt
Mr. Litton and his wife joined the
church during a 1959 visit to
Columbia.
The Rev. Donald G. Huston and
the Rev. Brent J. Eelman will
conduct the services.
Jay Wendel McKinsey, associate
dean of the University College of
Agriculture and a longtime friend of
Mr. Litton, will speak.
The Boone . County Litton
Committee announced Wednesday
the formation of a Jerry Litton
memorial scholarship fund at the
University.
Donations may be made to The
Jerry Litton Memorial Scholarship
Fund, Box 1734, Columbia, Mo.,
65201.
Fire station closing irks northeast area residents
By Virginia Young
Mtesoarian staff writer
Some Northeast Columbia residents
are upset by the city administration's
reluctance to approve funds that ensure
the city's fire stations will be open at all
times.
The funds allow the Columbia Fire
Department to recall off- du- ty fire
fighters to keep the companies at full
strength. Northeast area Fire Station
No. 5 on Route PP has been closed twice
in the past week becauae of the absence
of constant- maimui- g funds.
Ted Remmele, Stonegate Trailer
Park, said he plans to call a meeting of
area residents. " We will go to city hall
and raise hell."
Harry Ackman, 4715 Mexico Gravel
Road, said residents of that part of the
city were promised a fire station when
tiie area was annexed in 1969. " They
went to the expense of building it, but
now they don't want to supply the
manpower," he said.
Stations are closed on a day- to- d- ay
bads, depending on the available
manpower. Station No. 5 abut down
early Tuesday when one of the fire
fighters was attending negotiations
between Local 1056 of the International
Association of Firefighters and the city,
causing a shortage. The station was
reopened that afternoon.
There is a chance that Fire Station
No. 5 will be closed permanently, City
Manager Terry Novak said
Wednesday.
" Just because a fire station is there
doesn't mean we need it. We're
studying some computer programs now
which will help us determine the best
layout for fire stations."
Fire Chief Dean Holland has
requested ( 18,000 in constant- mannin- g
funds. Novak said he " hasn't decided
yet" whether he will take the request to
the City Council.
When Fire Station No. 5 is closed, its
calls are answered by Fire Station No. 4
on Oakland Gravel Road. " There would
be a slight difference in response
time," Novak said. " It's a matter of a
few minutes."
Fire Lt. G. D. Elder of Station No. 4
estimates the difference at four or five
minutes during rush hours. " The first
five minutes are crucial because heat
generates very quickly. An entire
trailer can be consumed in three
minutes," he said.
There are four mobile home parks in
the primary response area of Station.
No. 5. The area also includes the Indian
Hills residential district and the
Homestead Apartments.
Fire Lt. R. E. Barker of Station No. 5
said closing the station could be critical
for residents of the Homestead
Apartments. " I don't believe Station
No. 4 could get there in less than 10 or 12
minutes in heavy traffic."
It would take even longer for a
backup truck from Station No. 1,
Seventh and Walnut streets, to arrive,
he said.
Although the Boone County Fire
Protection District Station No. 1 also is
located on Route PP, it does not answer
calls within the city limits unless the
Columbia Fire Department specifically
requests aid.
Deputy Chief Steve Paulsell said,
" We have a mutual aid agreement with
the city whereby either department can
request assistance. The department
then determines whether it can assist
But since the fire fighter force at the
district station is all volunteer, there is
not always someone at the station."
Holland said that without more
amstant- mannin- g funds, he estimates
that " from time to time, three
companies will be closed down'